David Sylvester

Nine interviews with Francis Bacon spanning over twenty years from 1962 to 1986 which give invaluable insight into the creative mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists

Interviews with Francis Bacon

Together they chronicle and illuminate all the great developments in American art of the twentieth century. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, and more."--BOOK JACKET.

Interviews with American Artists

David Sylvester, who died in June 2001, was one of the greatest art critics of our time. He achieved fame with his work on Cezanne but became known especially for his close, perceptive studies of artists who became personal friends: Giacometti, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon. A brilliant interviewer who could make the most reticent artists disclose their secrets, he rarely revealed his own - but in the weeks before his death he wrote this brief, unforgettable account of his childhood in the 1920s. Beginning with his bewildered shuttling between an English nursery school and the turbulent Yiddish-speaking 'parental country', he reaches back for his child's-eye view. We meet Grandma Rosen with her passion for Rudolph Valentino, and Grandpa returning from his fishmonger's shop and reading out next day's runners at Kempton in his thick foreign accent. We learn of the large Sylvester clan, and of his parents' contradictory ambitions for their son: British army officer or 'a career like Noel Coward's'. We hear of friends and nannies, picnics and outings, schools and siblings; of music, politics, rows and disasters; of love and tenderness and death. Dry, comic yet poignantly unforgettable, Memoirs of a Pet Lamb brings us a life and a whole world in miniature.

Memoirs of a Pet Lamb

Ken Adam

The Visionary Art of Ken Adam

Moonraker, Strangelove and Other Celluloid Dreams

Magritte

Francis Bacon

2002 reprint of previously published The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. The cover is updated. This edition was printed and bound in Singapore. 146 illustrations.

This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past 40 years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.

Dawn Ades

Elizabeth Cowling

Hayward Gallery

Dada and Surrealism Reviewed

Jasper Johns

Anthony d'Offay Gallery (London)

Jasper Johns Flags, 1955-1994

Michael Peppiatt

Sam Hunter

Francis Bacon is a painter whose reputation, legendary at the time of his death in 1992, continues to grow. Recent biographies, a movie based on his life, and now the announcement of recently discovered, until now unseen Bacon paintings, have all focused public attention on an artist generally regarded as among the greatest of the latter half of the 20th century. This deluxe publication, printed with the highest quality reproductions on premium paper, catalogues an exhibition at the Tony Shafrazzi Gallery in New York that many Bacon experts feel is among the most important ever -- in no small part because of the until now unseen works, which are included here for the first time.

Important Paintings from the Estate

Jointly published by the Hayward Gallery and the University of California Press on the occasion of the exhibition "Francis Bacon: the human body " organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, 5 February-5 April, 1998.

The Human Body

Michael Bracewell

George

Gilbert

Stephen Snoddy

The Rudimentary Pictures, 1998

Gilbert & George

This book with its subsequent revised and augmented editions--has been considered a classic of its kind, and that reputation has become worldwide. As a discussion of problems of making art today it has been widely influential not only among artist but among writers and musicians. It has also been seen as the most revealing portrait that exists of one of the most singular artistic personalities of our times.

Interviews with Francis Bacon, 1962-1979

"In Looking back at Francis Bacon, eminent writer and curator David Sylvester provides the definitive account of the career of an artist whose friend and collaborator he was for more than forty years. Drawing on his unparalleled personal knowledge of Bacon's inspirations and intentions, he first offers a critical overview of the work's development from 1933 to the early 1990s, and then addresses its crucial aspects. He also reproduces previously unpublished extracts from his celebrated conversations with Bacon in which the artist speaks about himself, modern painters and the art of the past. Finally, Sylvester gives a brief account of Bacon's life, correcting errors that elsewhere have been presented as facts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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